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RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage
The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region.
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Future in Britain Survey, 1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this survey was to study the perceptions of the future held by the public (those between 15 and 44 years) and by the `elite' (those in positions of power and influence in Britain). The survey was conducted in 1970 for the Social Science Research Council (now Economic and Social Science...
Inter-Disciplinary Rural Research Project, Sukumaland, Tanzania, 1969
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The object of the research is to increase knowledge of the determinants of rural progress, specifically the sources of recent increases in agriculture production, the barriers to further such increase, and the possibilities for overcoming the barriers and raising agricultural output still further.Main...
Northern Ireland Social Mobility Survey, 1996
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims and objectives of this project were :
to examine the relationship between, one the one hand, social mobility and on the other, political preferences, attitudes and behaviour within the context of Northern Ireland, a society which is deeply divided on politico-religious backgrounds. In particular,...
Language, Performance, and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the Black Country
The project collected data from performers across the Black Country – poets, singers and stand-up comedians, as well as from local archives. It examined the notion that within a speech community, speakers may evaluate a non-standard variety differently than outside that community. This is particularly relevant to the Black Country, where the associated speech variety is...